Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are continuing to make headlines for what they do with their wealth. What’s new: They’re donating $25 million to the CDC in the effort to fight Ebola in Africa and elsewhere. The epidemic has killed more than 4,000 people.
In announcing the donation — made through their fund at the nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) — Zuckerberg posted on Facebook this morning: “We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.”
As we’ve covered on SiliconBeat, Zuckerberg and Chan have become familiar names in philanthropy. They have donated millions to schools in San Francisco; have signed on to the Giving Pledge, in which the world’s wealthiest people vow to give half their money away during their lifetimes; and last year ranked No. 1 on a list of the nation’s top donors by giving $1 billion worth of Facebook stock to the SVCF (after a donation worth $500 million in 2012.) In 2010, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to New Jersey schools.
Photo: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, and wife Priscilla Chan at the Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2011. Zuckerberg and his wife, Chan, are donating $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic, the foundation said today. (Julie Jacobson/Associated Press)
